First year summary

How time flies when you're having fun! I can't belive it has been a whole year already since Crispin came into my life. Time for a quick review and summary of our first year together.

It was a great year. Crispin was the perfect little pony quite literally from the first second and has been ever since.We're a perfect match I think. He's curious, smart, people oriented and cuddlly. He's very food motivated (which, I think, is a good and very heplful thing) not very herdbound (another good thing). Easy to handle and eager to please. Just perfect!

The first year's training was basically basic stuff:

• Crispin now knows that haltering is a fun thing and is very easy to catch no matter if he's out on pasture or just in the paddock. (Something I couldn't dream of doing before he came to Münster.)
• He leads like a true gentleman (walk or trot, halt, over poles, little jumps, tarp, bridges, in the ring or on the trails). He stops and leg yields in hand too and will do a TOF and TOH.
• He loads (well, Christina achived that but I haven't undone the training ;-) )
• He lunges (walk and trot, canter on the lunge doesn't work as well yet).
• He knows bit and bridle, saddle pad and surcingle and blanketing.
• He ties well and stands very well when tied. 
• He stands for farrier and vet and for grooming (of course).

There are a million other little things he has learned this year and of course he has grown up a lot physically and mentally too. The next steps are more lunging and, finally, backing. And I'm sure the next year will be just as fun than the first! (Or even better!)